Tacoma, Wash.-based Washington Gastroenterology has agreed to pay $4.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit stemming from a 2024 data breach, according to an Oct. 14 report from Claim Depot. In ...

As health systems grapple with financial pressures and shifting operational priorities, some are making workforce reductions that extend to physicians. At least three health systems have laid off ...

Allegheny Health Network appointed Nipun Merchant, MD, as chair of its department of surgery and its first surgeon-in-chief, effective February 2027. Dr. Merchant will oversee surgical services across ...

The debate over the future of physician practices is often framed as a binary: hospital employment or full independence. In cardiology specifically, hospital employment of cardiologists climbed from ...

Among physician associates (PAs) who reported burnout in 2026, 44% said it has lasted more than two years, up from 37% in 2024, according to Medscape’s PA Burnout & Depression Report 2026. The report, ...

Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Anesthesiology has developed Anesthesia Playground, an AI-enabled simulation website built to give medical students early, consistent exposure to anesthesia ...

Most physicians who aren’t qualifying APM participants face a 1.68% cut to the Medicare conversion factor in 2027 under CMS’ proposed physician fee schedule. Some specialties face much steeper drops ...

A Niagara Falls, N.Y.-based ASC performs retina surgery two to three times a month and could do much more. “If we break even, it’s a miracle with retina,” Kimberly Fullone, administrator of Ambulatory ...

Physician practice consolidation is driving demand for both larger multispecialty medical office buildings and smaller neighborhood clinics, according to Colliers’ third-quarter 2026 healthcare ...